Ayees



(No Model.)

J. HAND.

orse Net. Y

No'. 243,o4o. Patented 1'une'14,1881.,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HAND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM AYRES, Gr. RALSTON AYRES, JOHN C. AYRES, W. MONTGOMERY AYRES, AND LEWIS H. AYRES, ALL OFSAME PLACE.

HORSE-NET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,040, dated June 14, 1881.

Application filed August 9, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES HAND, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Horse-Nets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the horse-net for which Letters Patent No. 228,019 were granted May 25, 1880, to the 1o assignees of J. O. Ayres, and in which longitudinal tapes of textile fabric were combined with transverse strips of leather, the object of my improvemvnt being to connect the longi-` tudinal and transverse strips more securely together than in the said patented net.

ln 'the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view ot' sufficient of a horse-net to illustrate my invention 5 Fig. 2, a view illustrating a moditication of my invention, Fig. zo 3 an inverted view of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 a view ofthe horse-net as it appears when applied to a horse.

In Fig. l the net is the same as in the aforesaid patent ot' Ayres, as far as regards the longitudinal tapes a a of textile fabric, with which are interwoven the transverse strips d of leather; but in order that the latter may not be displaced by sliding through the tapes. I make by means ofa sewing-machine a vrow,f, 3o of stitches along each tape, midway or thereabout between its opposite edges, and as one or more of these stitches must pass through each transverse strip, as well as through the tapes, the slipping of the former through the latter must necessarily be prevented.' There may be more than one row of stitches along each tape; but I have found that one row is sufficient for the purpose.

The same plan of preventing the slipping of the transverse strips may be applied to such horse-nets as are made entirely of leather, in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the transverse strips being interlocked with the longitudinal strips a of leather by passing the former through the latter in the manner shown, after which a row of stitches is made along each longitudinal strip, (or there may be more than one row,) thereby preventing the transverse strips from being displaced, and rendering the net more permanent than ordinary nets 5o of this class.

The invention may be adopted in making the net shown in Fig. 4 and to any other style of net.

In man ufactnring horsenets stitches have been made in the longitudinal strips, so as to form loops passing over transverse strips. I therefore do not claim, broadly, securing the stri ps together by stitches; but

I claim as my invention- A horse-netin which longitudinal strips and transverse strips interlocked by weaving or otherwise are combined with a row or rows of stitches made along the said longitudinal strips, one or more stitches passing through both strips, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in the presence of two subscribing'witnesses.

JAMES HAND.

Witnesses:

H. R. SCHULTZ, HENRY HoWsoN, J r. 

